Raising the alarm on the greatest threat to global security
"This will not be the first time people have fought over land, water and resources.......... but this time it will be on a scale that dwarfs the conflicts of the past"http://nationmultimedia.com/2007/04/26/ ... 032761.php

Italy plans for water and power emergency
"The government has warned that Italy risks a drastic shortage of water, coupled with possible power blackouts, during the coming months. Following a mild winter with little rainfall, rivers and lakes are already severely depleted, the current unseasonably high temperatures and the scorching summer that the majority of climatologists predict, may overtax water-run generators"http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/news.php?id_n=3052

Wave breaking along the stratospheric polar vortex as seen in ERA-40 data
"Frequent wave breaking in the lower stratosphere in early winter appears to both shield the upper portion of the vortex from wave disturbances and reduce the net upward wave activity flux into the troposphere, thereby allowing the vortex to strengthen into mid-winter"http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 9509.shtml

Europe swelters in record spring heatwave
"We are getting about 11 hours of sunshine a day, practically double the average...... At the same time there has not been a drop of rain over most of France since the start of the month"http://www.france24.com/france24Public/ ... at=science

Time running out to avoid climate disaster
"In the third section due to be presented in the Thai capital of Bangkok* on May 4, the IPCC is expected to outline what options are left for us to save the planet"http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/56446.html

*(Note: I will be at the meeting to cover this for interested pirates)

Drought increasing fire-prone area in Mekong Delta region
"More jungles in the Mekong Delta region are turning saline and prone to fire, after 100,000 hectares of rivers and channels dried out, aggravating residents as the dry season comes to a close"http://www.thanhniennews.com/features/? ... wsid=27376

Geologists to discuss historic ice core
"...... signs of fluctuations are critical since the Ross Sea ice is a floating extension of the even bigger West Antarctic Ice Sheet -- an area so unstable scientists foresee its collapse from global warming. Such a collapse could raise sea levels worldwide by a catastrophic 20 feet"http://www.physorg.com/news96828703.html

Swiss Re Exec Explores Risk and Mitigation Disconnect at RIMS
"Swiss Re's position on climate change recognizes the "scientific evidence of rising temperatures and increasing frequency and severity of natural catastrophes." Swiss Re has faced the problem by introducing more "mitigation and adaptation into global risk management, not only through traditional risk transfer but in the development of insurance-linked securities and weather derivatives"http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/in ... /79255.htm

Industry and science join forces to strengthen the UK’s capability in monitoring the environment from space
"As our planet’s climate changes, such instruments on board Earth observation satellites are becoming essential tools to monitor the changes and provide a health check on the environments in which we live"http://www.innovations-report.de/html/b ... 83563.html

Lunch with the FT: James Lovelock
”Humanity will be reduced to a few breeding pairs............ An enormous food shortage will kill off most people........ Watch the Dutch. Half of northern Europe will be under water, and there’s Holland behind a 10ft surrounding wall carrying on business as usual” http://www.ft.com/cms/s/cd8ffb5a-f14b-1 ... 10621.html

Water and energy security
"It is not too dramatic to state that if global warming becomes a reality, and if climate change is not halted, our country as we know it today will be largely unrecognisable. We have perhaps a few years in which to draw up a survival plan"http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php?id=260275

Deadly Frog Disease Is Spreading
"Additional pressures including habitat loss, air and water-borne pollutants such as herbicides and even climate change could weaken frogs' immune systems, and make them more prone to fungal infections"http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 095949.htm

Carbon-cycle feedbacks increase the likelihood of a warmer future
"The effect of positive carbon-cycle feedbacks on the likelihood of extreme future warming must be incorporated into climate policy-related decision making"http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 8685.shtml

Scientists issue warning of climate change death threats
"The present scientific consensus is that the climate is changing and that human activity is contributing significantly to this. We have to prepare for the consequences and consider the possible health impacts"http://www.ft.com/cms/s/6f613b6c-faa5-1 ... 10621.html

Oceanic climate and circulation changes during the past four centuries from radiocarbon in corals
"Low radiocarbon levels persisted for ten years during the early 1600s and for sixteen years during the early 1800s, both coincident with periods of high volcanic aerosol loading in the atmosphere from massive eruptions. Intensification of tropical circulation at this time may be linked to climatically-controlled changes in the structure of the tropical thermocline that is responsible for delivering cool, upwelled waters to the tropical east Pacific"http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 8681.shtml

Global warming may spark severe droughts
"Complicated climate fluctuations, a high demand for water to cope with economic, social and environmental development and the limited regulation of irrigation systems are some of the major causes of dryer weather"http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/show ... 3SOC050507

Forests to Combat Desertification 16-19 April 2007 (Jerusalem Israel)
"The conference will provide a broad forum for the summary and synthesis of state-of-the-art afforestation practices"http://www.fcd.org.il/main.php?page=about

Global Research Technologies
"Extensive deployment of the GRT air-capture system makes it possible to envision for the first time an actual reduction of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, perhaps even to pre-industrial levels"http://www.grestech.com/stake.php

Floods and drought: Lloyd's assesses climate change
"These things are fact, not hypothesis......... You don't have to be a believer in global warming to recognize the climate is changing. The industry has to get ready for the changes that are coming"http://www.reuters.com/article/environm ... RSS&rpc=22

On recent interannual variability of the Arctic winter mesosphere
"These results might explain observations of enhanced upper atmospheric NO descending to the upper stratosphere in 2006 and highlights the importance of gravity waves in modulating the coupling of the upper atmosphere with the stratosphere"http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 9293.shtml

Disappearance of great whales would create a huge ecological void
"I think the implicit view has historically been that whales were just these magnificent, big creatures. Nobody asked the question of what that really meant, whether whales were major players in ocean ecosystems" http://www.paramuspost.com/article.php/ ... 4123709192

Citigroup to spend $50 billion over 10 yrs to address climate change
"it aims to support the commercialization and growth of alternative energy and clean technology among its clients and markets, as well as within its own businesses and operations"http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/c ... AC890F0%7D

UN Says Global Warming is Confusing Birds and Whales
"During meetings on climate change among representatives from over 100 countries, specialists said global warming is confusing the biological clocks of birds and whales -- disrupting their migration patterns"http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,214 ... 70,00.html

Amazon rainforest locks up 11 years of CO2 emissions
"Writing in Global Change Biology, carbon cycle scientists led by Dr. Sassan Saatchi of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) report a new method for estimating the distribution of biomass over the Amazon basin"http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0508-amazon.html

Melting of the Greenland ice cap may affect future stability of ocean circulation
"Deep ocean sediments offer a record of ocean circulation in the past. By studying these sediments, we can see that abrupt changes in ocean circulation and the subsequent climate change are not a new phenomenon, but have happened on several occasions in the past. When the great ice sheets covering North America and Scandinavia melted at the end of the last ice age, the subsequent flow of fresh water into the North Atlantic caused the greatest natural disturbance in ocean circulation in the last 20,000 years"http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ ... 7217/cs/1/

Benefits and drawbacks of bioenergy must be considered
“unless new policies are enacted to protect threatened lands, secure socially acceptable land use, and steer bioenergy development in a sustainable direction overall, the environmental and social damage could in some cases outweigh the benefits”http://esa.un.org/un-energy/pdf/susdev.Biofuels.FAO.pdf

GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE: NATIONAL SECURITY IMPLICATIONS Strategic Studies Institute
"Climate change is underway. The effects will vary according to a broad variety of circumstances and interactions, some of which are not well-understood"http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.ar ... PUB779.pdf